"When we started the study, we wondered whether we would have anybody who said yes to that question," Amanda Lenhart, research lead for the study, told Business Insider in an interview. "We figured it would be a relatively low incident thing, but it turns out that it actually really happens."

The numbers also show that women under 30, minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community are much more likely to be threatened with revenge porn than men. That said, when it comes to having their pictures actually posted online, the numbers are much more equal across the board.

"There's been some suggestion that in fact men are victims and we just don't talk about them," Lenhart said. "That's one of the things that we think is important in this report, it's not just women that have these images posted it's men as well."

It's also important to understand that each case is different. Sometimes pictures are posted by a scorned lover while other times, like in the case of celebrities, the victims' accounts were hacked into and they do not even know their perpetrator. Whatever the reason, this statistic stands as a continued reminder to be careful what you post and share online. You never know who has access to it.